It’s the Summer of ’87, and Gio (Spencer Boldman), an Italian kid from Queens, has little on his mind but cars and girls. Gio thinks he’s got it all figured out until he meets Jessica (Emily Ratajkowski), a nice Jewish girl from Long Island who likes to go undercover for illicit thrills on the wrong side of the tracks.
An affectionate look at the youth culture of a bygone era, the movie Cruise celebrates the joys of muscle cars, Motorola pagers and endless summer nights.
Robert Siegel, who wrote an directed the movie Cruise, penned the screenplays for The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke and The Founder starring Michael Keaton.